| Hugh Murray, John Crawfurd, Peter Gordon - 1843 - 386 pągines
...of earth with inhabitants, but have streets and cities on the waters, — such a nation must indeed occupy a conspicuous place in the history of mankind ; and the study of their institutions cannot fail to throw an important light on the progress and arrangement of the social... | |
| Samuel Wells Williams - 1848 - 648 pągines
...manners, letters, and polity, — whose cities and capitals rival in numbers the greatest metropoles of any age, — who have not only covered the earth...mankind, and the study of their character and condition commend itself to every well-wisher of his race. It has been too much the custom of writers to overlook... | |
| Samuel Wells Williams - 1848 - 626 pągines
...whose cities and capitals rival in numATTAINMENTS IX CIVILIZATION. 41 bers the greatest metropoles of any age, — who have not only covered the earth...towns and streets : — such a nation must occupy a cod(iicuous place in the history of mankind, and the study of their character and condition commend... | |
| Samuel Wells Williams - 1849 - 636 pągines
...manners, letters, and polity, — whose cities and capitals rival in numbers the greatest metropoles of any age, — who have not only covered the earth but the waters with towns^and streets : — such a nation must occupy a conspicuous place in the history of mankind, and... | |
| Henry Howe - 1854 - 740 pągines
...manners, letters, and polity — whose cities and capitals rival in number the greatest metropolis of any age — who have not only covered the earth...commends itself to every well-wisher of his race. It has been too much the custom of writers to overlook the influence of the bible upon modern civilization... | |
| Michael McN. Walsh - 1867 - 180 pągines
...and were known and practiced many centuries earlier ; who probably amount to more than 400,000,000, united in one system of manners, letters, and policy...commends itself to every well-wisher of his race." There is no nation of Europe that is any thing more than a pigmy by the side of China. England leads... | |
| George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1873 - 832 pągines
...and were known and practised many centuries earlier; who probably amount to more tlian 300,000,000, united in one system of manners, letters, and policy...shown by the great diversity of opinion among those travellers who have ventured beyond the immediate vicinity of the large seaports, and improved every... | |
| 1873 - 806 pągines
...and were known and practised many centuries earlier; who probably amount to more than 300,000,000, united in one system of manners, letters, and policy...shown by the great diversity of opinion among those travellers who have ventured beyond the immediate vicinity of the large seaports, and improved every... | |
| Samuel Wells Williams - 1882 - 896 pągines
...of manners, letters, and polity ; whose cities and capitals rival in numbers the greatest metropoles of any age ; who have not only covered the earth,...in the history of mankind, and the study of their charCIVILIZATION PAST AND FUTURE. 47 acter and condition commend itself to every well-wisher of his... | |
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